Grace Stanhope
Research Associate, Southeast Asia Aid Map
Biography
Publications
Grace Stanhope is a Research Associate in the Lowy Institute’s Indo-Pacific Development Centre working on the Southeast Asia Aid Map, a tool that tracks and analyses foreign aid and development finance flows to Southeast Asia from 2015 onwards.
Grace joined the Lowy Institute from the Australian Strategic Policy Institute in 2023 and previously worked as a sub-editor in the Federal Parliamentary Press Gallery. She holds a Bachelor of Politics, Philosophy and Economics and a Bachelor of Development Studies from the Australian National University.
China’s contributions are a blind spot in global climate finance
Accounting for money from China and other non-traditional donors is vital to set a meaningful global target to assist developing countries.
Australia is increasingly spending around, not on, development
Transparency could be the cost of the semi-commercialisation of Australia’s international development efforts.
The Translator: The nomenclature of foreign aid
A series in which experts explain the sometimes baffling jargon of international affairs.
Mind the gap: China’s megaproject promises fall short of reality in Southeast Asia
Debt, delay and deteriorating ties between China and its infrastructure partners have led some to go it alone.
Data Snapshot
Mind the gap: Ambition versus delivery in China’s BRI megaprojects in Southeast Asia
China has become Southeast Asia’s largest infrastructure financing partner. Yet there is an enormous gap between what Beijing promises and what it has delivered.
A multilateral bank for the Indo-Pacific?
The region needs a dedicated bank that enhances economic security in the pursuit of climate and development goals.
Gender equality financing: Spotlight on Southeast Asia
A discrepancy in data collection for gender-led funding is skewing the stats on development support in the region.
Go big or go home: Australia should invest at scale in Southeast Asia’s energy transition
The Paris Agreement will not succeed if the bid for net zero in Southeast Asia fails.
Commentary
Lessons in urban development from Jakarta’s mass rapid transit project
Originally posted on Devpolicy